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Connecting at the 1st European Alliance for Personalised Medicine Congress 2017

December 14, 2017 15:28 - x 00, 0 - 00:00

HARMONY organized an interactive session on November 28 at the 1st European Alliance for Personalised Medicine Congress 2017 titled “Personalising Your Health: A Global Imperative, which was held from 27 to 30 November in Belfast Ireland. EAPM2017 aimed to broaden the reach of personalized medicine across the EU. EAPM is a HARMONY Partner.

The HARMONY session consisted of a keynote presentation and a lively discussion. Main topics the panel talked about with the audience were 'How to Apply Big Data in Patient Care, Regulatory Systems and Drug Approval Processes' and 'Big data & Hematology: What Are The Specifics We Need To Take Into Account'. By participating in EAPM2017 the HARMONY Alliance was able to reach out to a broad audience such as European healthcare experts, patient advocates involved with chronic diseases, industry, researchers, academics, and cross-party Members of the European Parliament.

The HARMONY ambassadors at EAPM 2017:

From right to left:

Guillermo Sanz, HARMONY Partner and Project Co-Chair, HULAFE, Spain
Patricia van Dijck, HARMONY Partner and Project Lead, Novartis, Belgium
Ellen de Waal, HARMONY Partner and Communication Manager, European Hematology Association (EHA), The Netherlands
Pam Bacon, HARMONY Partner and Project Co-Lead, Celgene, Switzerland
Carin Smand, HARMONY Partner and WP7 Lead, European Hematology Association (EHA), The Netherlands
Tamás Bereczky, HARMONY Partner, Leukanet, Germany
External speaker: Egge van der Poel, Associate Dean Permanent Education for Professionals Jheronimus Academy of Data Science; Erasmus MC Clinical Data Scientist, The Netherlands

Watch the interview with the keynote speaker Egge van der Poel filmed after his inspirational presentation about Big data & Health:

Watch the feed back on the interactive session of the HARMONY panel members in the video interviews:

Check the slideshow presentations which were presented during the HARMONY Interactive Sessions at Slideshare.

Read the EAPM2017 Congress daily newsletters: Belfast Opening Newsletter 27 November 2017; Newsletter 28 November 2017; Newsletter 29 November 2017; Newsletter 30 November 2017 and Newsletter 1 December 2017.

Or download the EAPM2017 Congress Report -'Personalising Your Health - A Global Imperative.

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Public-private partnership for Big Data in Hematology

HARMONY and HARMONY PLUS are funded through the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), Europe's largest public-private initiative aiming to speed up the development of better and safer medicines for patients. Funding is received from the IMI 2 Joint Undertaking and is listed under grant agreement for HARMONY No. 116026 and grant agreement for HARMONY PLUS No. 945406. This Joint Undertaking receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA).